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MADAME MELBA AT HOME

... of the world. Our first picture is from a photograph by H. W. Barnett, Hyde Park-corner, and the other by Talma and Co., Sydney. THREE GENERATIONS, Madame Melba, Mr. David Mitchell, her father, and Miss Nellie Patterson, her sister's child. From a picture ...

A GLANCE AROUND

... country unsought it goes to the country unwept. It may come back again or it may not. But whatever its J ate, may we be saved from another such visitation as that of the year now ending For particulars see the aforementioned borders\ IT has been the practice ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2046 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE GOLFER'S PROGRESS: THE HOYLAKE JUBILEE

... blinded even in one case or more. And from then we came on gradually to present times and the little heavy balls which have at last incurred the displeasure of the high authorities and are threatened with excommunication from the game. There has always been ...

BYSTANDER COMMENTS: Revised Version

... good deal to their hair. Eugenists, please note The Scrap-Book L\dy Shackleton is j anxious to find her late husband's scrap-book winch is unaccountably missing. There was a time when the scrap-book was a valued asset of every library, but it has fallen ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1498 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SECRETS OF A SHOWMAN

... was once able to make a long engagement for an indifferent artist. She came to me with a letter of introduction from America and a scrap-book full of eulogistic notices. She was not pretty, her voice was not good, and she sang a dull medley of old songs ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5501 | Page: 74 | Tags: Illustrations 

FROM COCKTAILS TO PORT

... FROM COCKTAILS TO PORTl By the Shaker. DAD, why do they call it 'Glorious' Good- wood? murmured the inquisitive daughter during an interval between races. By thunder, growled her exasperated parent, who had just dropped a pony on a stone-dead cert ...

Why the Riviera Will Remain

... which separates Calais from Nice. That is obviously written from the heart, and it is to the heart that the C6te d Azur makes its irresistible f appeal. The Riviera is a romantic spot, and Romance springs from the heart rather than from the k pocket or the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1926
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1185 | Page: 62 | Tags: Illustrations 

TWO BOOKS OF DISTINCTION

... ity. I cannot leave the book without voic ing my one regret, The exeats from Hell permitted to Judas Iscariot by the Lord he be trayed from Satur- flnv tr ^nndau night, and from Easter to Whitsun-- should not be headed Where Judas goes for the week-end ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 963 | Page: 56 | Tags: Illustrations 

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The CHILDREN'S SALON and Competition Circles: NEWS of the MONTH

... rather too large, and the features on the small side, but it looks as if you would draw accurately enough from the -living model. Sketch direct from life whenever possible. There is no practice like it. Lorna Lloyd. You have succeeded remarkably well with ...

With Silent Friends: Two Fascinating Books

... its pettiness. Together they provide an interesting historical study. Another Half-forgotten World. Miss Violet Hunt takes us into another world again a world, however, which she, too, has recreated so vividly that it seems she must have actually lived ...

MOTLEY NOTES: KNOWLEDGE

... of useless knowledge There are many people who have what may be called the scrap-book mind. They go on pasting things in all their lives and when all is done their scrap-book is fit for nothing but the scrap-heap. There are quite a number of people in ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations